Myxomycetes
"The plasmodial slime molds. Slime molds with multinucleate plasmodium which creeps along as a mass and eventually differentiates into sporangia, each of which is multinucleate and eventually gives rise to many spores. About 450 species."
Biology of Plants, Fourth Edition, Worth Publishers Inc., Stanford University, Peter H. Raven and Helena Curtis, ©1971
| Taxonomic Hierarchy | |
| Kingdom | Fungi – fungi |
| Division | Myxomycota – slime molds |
| Class | Myxomycetes – acellular slime molds, plasmoidial slime molds, true slime molds |
| Direct Children: | |
| Subclass | Endosporeae |
| Subclass | Exosporeae |
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